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Hi, thank you for posting this feelingbellocq,
This is just my thoughts although I am sure it touches on what most people think and have discussed before however I just wanted to get my comments out there, although my comments may not be like and I am just another person with an individual view point which may not be correct but it is what I think personally.
There have been many times like most and I am only guess here maybe even yourself have felt that way, and maybe like you, again guessing your thoughts here or that other humanly thing of assumption that us humans do so well, the unable to discuss those very thoughts sometimes just makes them worse. It can make yourself feel like because you think that way and as everyone else makes those thoughts appear not to be ok to talk about them. Sometimes this can make you feel you should go and do that very thing. Yet if this was a discussion of something else and someone kept it all bottle up then people would say that person should have let it out and not kept it to themselves, yet this very strong and serious pain and distress within itself is always kept between an individual mostly to themselves or professional help.
Like most people it is probably the thought that someone may see this as an encouragement not help because to talk about suicide itself may cause some people to see it as an ok thing to do, not that I am saying it is a wrong thing to do.. I am not saying that at all, many times I have wallowed in the very thoughts. Yet from some peoples prospective they may misconstrued it to be seen this way, how many times have people done something because it all over the news and everyone knows that everyone does it.. that type of thing is what I am pointing out here.
However I think sometimes talking suicide, from an understanding of the thoughts and feeling can be of help as like many things it is about self-reflecting on our life’s and experiences which can help us work through these thoughts or come to terms with them and help others, how may be there with the thoughts and just don’t know where to turn. Sometimes just seeing another person insight can be the very thing they need to be able to then view themselves within another view point which would have a positive effect not a negative effect.
If you just replaced the suicide with another word like anxiety or emotions and people where talking, as we all do here on the forums then it wouldn’t be a problem would it? Although, yes I can see the counter argument to this as actually it may be different as to the nature of comments and what people may be discussing. Which I think can be the big thing as to why this is just not allowed at the moment.
However if there was a leeway on the nature of how much or what was allowed to be discussed openly on the forums then I see no problem to this… how many forums on here have a can only mention this or that is not prohibited, why can’t it there be that self-refection or thought’s and feeling behind the suicide feeling/ intentions be discussed and not the very intentions themselves or past attempts.
One thing people don’t always think of is if a person is openly talking about these type of feeling then they are alive and at a point where they can be help but how many times has it got to the point where someone has killed themselves. Then people go why didn’t they talk about it or seek help, where could they have gone, that’s what.. sure there are professional help out there and sometimes for some people depending at the point in life that is the very help they need and are looking in the right place. But sometimes maybe if people had a place they could open up about their feelings, it would get to that point.
However again the problem may also be if someone was on an open forum and needed more help but couldn’t get that help from the forum. Then that as well may lead to their death as they may feel on one is there to help them, when actually the forum are just light hearted in the sense we are all here for the similar reason to seek help and gain help but with a sensitive topic like this it could equally go as wrong. I guess this is the main reason why it is not allowed because it can equally go in too extremes and no one want’s to feel they may have contributed to that not intentionally but we all are just at another end of a computer of some sort and totally unaware of the impact we may or may not cause to another viewer somewhere.
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